How to Clear Your Cache, Cookies and Web History in Google Chrome

Google Chrome stores information from websites you visit in its cache and cookies and logs your web history.

Clearing your cache, cookies and web history in Google Chrome can fix certain problems, like loading and formatting issues. Clearing your cookies can also enhance Chrome’s performance and stop websites and third-parties from obtaining your data.

After you clear your cache, cookies and web history you won’t see address bar predictions anymore or items you added to online shopping carts. Websites you frequent might also become slower because content, like images, will need to load again. You may also have to sign back into an account you were previously logged into.

Cache

Cache contains information from the websites you visited using Chrome. Information from websites such as images, videos, and website layouts are stored to make the websites you visit load faster.

Cookies

Cookies are files created by websites you visited using Chrome. Cookies are used to keep you signed into a site, remember your preferences on a site, and show you relevant content.

There are two types of cookies:

First-party cookies are cookies that are created by the website you visit.

Third-party cookies are cookies that are created by other websites that own content on the website you visit. Third-party cookies are often used by advertising networks and images.

Web History

Web history is a record of all the web pages you visited using Chrome.